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Two-sided search and matching: Theory and estimation / Shin, Seul Ki.
- Format:
- Book
- Thesis/Dissertation
- Author/Creator:
- Shin, Seul Ki, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Labor economics.
- Economics.
- Economics--Penn dissertations.
- Penn dissertations--Economics.
- Local Subjects:
- Labor economics.
- Economics.
- Economics--Penn dissertations.
- Penn dissertations--Economics.
- Genre:
- Academic theses.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (110 pages)
- Contained In:
- Dissertation Abstracts International 76-10A(E).
- Place of Publication:
- [Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]: University of Pennsylvania ; Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2015.
- Language Note:
- English
- System Details:
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- text file
- Summary:
- Frictions are a potentially important feature of many two-sided settings, for example, in the marriage market. My dissertation develops and estimates two-sided search and matching models and uses them to assess the importance of frictions in explaining observed marriage patterns. In the models, unmatched individuals search for long-term partners. Opportunities to meet potential partners arrive over time at uncertain intervals. Individuals are of different observable discrete types (e.g., gender and race/ethnicity) and types vary in their proportions within the population. Types may also differ in their type-pair specific utilities of marrying and their likelihood of meeting certain types of potential spouses.
- The first chapter in my dissertation proposes a new identification approach to separately estimate type-specific preferences and opportunities. I implement the technique to understand the marital patterns of racial and ethnic groups in the United States and to analyze the reasons for a high degree of same-type marriages. The second chapter theoretically analyzes the implications of the assumption that people prefer same-type partners. I show that frameworks with and without search frictions deliver different insights about the effects of group size on matching outcomes.
- Notes:
- Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 76-10(E), Section: A.
- Advisors: Kenneth Burdett; Kenneth I. Wolpin; Committee members: Hnaming Fang; Andrew Postlewaite.
- Department: Economics.
- Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania 2015.
- Local Notes:
- School code: 0175
- ISBN:
- 9781321794519
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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